Chester woman faces new drug charges

A Chester woman who has already completed two drug treatment programs was back in court facing new drug charges after Springfield police said they found her in a hotel room filled with drug paraphernalia.
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Chester woman faces new drug charges By ERIC FRANCIS CORRESPONDENT | April 13,2015 ERIC FRANCIS PHOTO Teanna Record, 28, of Chester is facing several new drug charges following her arrest in a hotel room in Springfield. WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Chester woman who has already completed two drug treatment programs was back in court facing new drug charges after police said they found her in a Springfield hotel room filled with drug paraphernalia. Teanna Record, 23, pleaded innocent Friday afternoon to a felony heroin possession charge as well as to accompanying misdemeanor counts of possessing oxycodone and violating a court-ordered condition of pre-trial release. Record, who was already facing multiple unresolved heroin possession charges in both Windsor and Windham counties and two felony heroin possession charges in New Hampshire, was re-released on new conditions, including a court order that she stay in her residence under a 24-hour-a-day curfew unless she is going to a counseling or legal appointment. Record also has cases pending for felony identity theft, first offense, and misdemeanor possession of narcotics stemming from an incident last July in which she is charged with using her mother’s credit card to book a room at a resort hotel in Cavendish where police said she then invited friends over to use a meth-like street drug known as “bath salts.” Record pleaded innocent to those counts last August. The latest arrest came Thursday morning after clerks at the Circle K gas station in Springfield became concerned that they were possibly being staked out by would-be robbers and contacted police, Springfield Police Officer Jeremy Fitzgibbons wrote in an affidavit filed with the court. The clerks were suspicious because Record was wandering around the snowy parking lot in her sock feet and talking to two men wearing hoodies who were keeping themselves outside of the store, Fitzgibbons wrote. Police reviewed the store’s video tapes and then went to the nearby Holiday Inn parking lot where they recognized Record and began to investigate further. Record told police that she and her cousin, Joshua King, and a friend, William Bussino, had been staying at the hotel the previous night and claimed that what the clerks at the Circle K had noticed was just a conversation between two other male friends about whether they had their ID’s with them and could buy cigarettes. Fitzgibbons said when he knocked on the door of the trio’s hotel room, Bussino opened it, allowing the officer to see “through the open door (that there were) syringes and a glass water bong on a table” inside the room. That, coupled with what police said were clear signs of drug use by Record, including slurred speech and needle “track” marks and dried blood on her arms, led police to search the room. During the search, which was carried out with the assistance of Springfield Police Chief Dennis Johnston and state troopers, Fitzgibbons said Record put on a pair of Bussino’s work boots, which he said were clearly too large for her, in an apparent effort to leave the room with them. Police made Record leave the boots behind and Fitzgibbons said when he looked in them with a flashlight he immediately noticed a baggie containing 18 bags of heroin and eight round blue pills that were later identified as oxycodone. Police also reported finding white crystal powder they suspect are bath salts in four different locations in the hotel room along with “numerous glass smoking devices, needles, tweezers, spoons, razor blades, a digital scale and small items associated with the use of heroin and bath salts.”